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He moved in fast. he declared war in afghanistan and iraq. he felt like he had -- of course there was september 11th, but the kind of consensus that he felt he had. i think that's dangerous. we shouldn't be talking about individuals right now. we should be talking about issues. these primaries should be about the minimum wage, about war, about the growing inequality between rich and poor, about climate change and who best will address these issues. if you gather around one person, then whatever they say will go. where is the debate over the direction this country will go. >> richard, i want to...

Campaigning for $15 an hour minimum wage nationwide. thank you for joining me, councilwoman. >> thank you. >> first off, this is an issue you campaigned and worked on for quite a while. i want to ask you how significant is this development in the fight for better pay for those who earn a minimum wage and for those who are trying to raise themselves above the poverty line? >> thank you for covering this issue. this is a huge and historic victory for working people not only in seattle but in the nation. look at what it talked b income equality, skyrocketing poverty, all the burden of the recessi...

What's your favorite kind of cheerios? honey nut. but... chocolate is my other favorite... oh yeah, and frosted! what's your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. welcome back, everybody. let's get to our twitter question. it has to do with seattle and the historic vote to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks. however, they have is subminimum wage. is it fair to pay teens less than 15 bucks an hour in seattle? and is this a federal model? tweet us your responses using #waytooearly. let's talk sports. we've got dan marino one of the latest players to file a concussion ...

>> at the same time, they're electing chris christie, right? this is indicative of this possibility that some sense of economic justice might, in fact, transcend sort of our most narrow partisan battles. part of the argument amy made is if you want to legitimately shrink the social safety net, if you're not a bad person and want people to go hungry, you say i think there are too many people on these various government programs. it seems the most standard basic way to do that is to make living wages in which people can purchase their own food and housing. >> absolutely. if you look at the polls...

Times, it's never happened. if you had a professor who told you turning water down to zero will never make it freeze, if you turned it down 32 times and it froze, maybe the theory is wong. minimum wage gives people more purchasing power. >> and people at the margins will spend that money right away. >> on wasteful things like food and clothing. >> ovik, you made a point earlier i want to return to on this question, which is there's the conservative intellectuals and think tank folks, people running for office, and there o's a base. talk to me about the politics of what it means to be a conserv...